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In this letter organisations representing hauliers, truck leasers, freight forwarders and other logistics and truck industry representatives, along with T&E, express their serious concern about the slowing down of the process to introduce the VECTO tool, which is designed to measure, calculate, report and monitor CO2 emissions and fuel consumption from new heavy-goods vehicles. VECTO is being delayed by parallel legislation in trilogue that would give the Commission power to implement the program - that file is being held up by an issue unrelated to VECTO and trucks.

NGOs Transport & Environment and NABU today occupied the entrance to the largest truck fair in Europe - IAA Hannover - to show the inconvenient truth about European trucks: 20 years of stagnation in fuel efficiency.

MEPs have called on the European Commission to table an ambitious proposal to reduce carbon emissions from trucks as soon as possible. A cross-party group of MEPs led by Karima Delli joined the call during the #InconvenientTruck event at the Strasbourg Parliament. (See here event photos with the MEPs.)

The United States has set new standards for carbon dioxide emissions from lorries, which are sufficiently ambitious to threaten to leave Europe’s truck-making industry behind. The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) described the new standards as ‘a big win-win’ for their potential to cut both costs and greenhouse gases, while T&E said they were ‘as much about environmental leadership as about innovation’.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today published the second phase of greenhouse gas standards for the trucking sector, which will enable America to have the cleanest and most fuel-efficient trucks in the world. Europe’s sustainable transport group, Transport & Environment (T&E), welcomed the standard and urged European regulators to, having already sent the right signal, now step up their game and propose EU fuel efficiency targets for trucks now.

National emissions-reduction targets proposed for the transport, agriculture and buildings sectors include loopholes that would put their delivery at serious risk, environmental groups have warned. The regulation proposed by the European Commission will determine how member states share the burden of meeting the EU’s climate goals by 2030.

Fears that Europe’s transport is still lagging behind other industrial sectors in tackling climate change have been confirmed by the latest data from the European Environment Agency (EEA). Its data show greenhouse gases from transport have grown for the first time since 2007. T&E says the figures are worse than the EEA says, and calls on the EU to take ‘ambitious’ action.

Joint statement from Carbon Market Watch and Transport & Environment (T&E) on publication of EU climate policy designed to reduce emissions across the agriculture, transport, building and waste sectors (the Effort Sharing Decision)Today, the European Commission proposed national greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for EU member states in the 2021-2030 period, distributing EU-wide targets that member states agreed to in October 2014. Worryingly, the proposal includes loopholes that put the real-world delivery of the EU’s climate pledge at serious risk. Carbon Market Watch and Transport & Environment call on the European Parliament and member states to strengthen the EU’s largest climate legislation in line with the commitment made in Paris.

The announcement of new CO2 standards for cars, vans and, for the first time in Europe, trucks forms the centrepiece of the EU’s strategy for low-emission mobility and has been welcomed by Transport & Environment (T&E) as a meaningful step in the fight against climate change. But the Commission’s plan is completely devoid of ambition on cutting emissions from aviation and shipping, the sustainable transport group said.

Today’s €2.93 billion settlement fine on truckmakers is a record in absolute terms, but it is still possible that the industry stands to gain from the cartel, sustainable transport group Transport & Environment has said.